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1 Crafts: Art of Daily Life

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The Southwest The Arctic The Northwest Coast California The Southeast The Northeast The Great Plains

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41. Tapestry
  • Barbara Jean Teller Ornelas (Navajo, born 1954)
  • Arizona
  • 1989
  • Wool weaving
  • The Gloria F. Ross Collection of Contemporary Navajo Weaving of the Denver Art Museum, 1989.119

Barbara Teller Ornelas, a renowned Navajo master weaver, belongs to a lineage of weavers extending back five generations. She began learning the art of weaving by observing her mother weave when she was only eight years old. Ornelas processes her own wool yarn which she spins herself.

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